Baton may refer to:
Stick-like objects
*Baton, a type of
club
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Baton (law enforcement)
A baton (also known as a truncheon or nightstick) is a roughly cylindrical club made of wood, rubber, plastic, or metal. It is carried as a compliance tool and defensive weapon by law-enforcement officers, correctional staff, security guards ...
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Baston (weapon), a type of baton used in Arnis and Filipino Martial Arts
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Baton charge, a coordinated tactic for dispersing crowds of people
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Baton (conducting), a short thin stick used for directing a musical performance
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Baton (military), a symbolic attribute of military or other office
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Baton (running), an object transferred by runners in a relay race
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Baton sinister, a mark of cadency in heraldry
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Baton twirling, a light metal rod used for keeping time, twirling in competitions, etc.
*Baton, a smaller version of a
baguette
*Baton, in
stick juggling
The manipulation of the devil stick (also devil-sticks, devilsticks, flower sticks, stunt sticks, gravity sticks, or juggling sticks) is a form of gyroscopic juggling or equilibristics, consisting of manipulating one stick ("baton", 'center sti ...
, the central stick, which is manipulated with the side-sticks (control sticks)
*Baton, another word for a
batonette
There are a number of regular knife cuts that are used in many recipes, each producing a standardized cut piece of food. The two basic shapes are the strip and the cube.
Strip cuts
* Pont-neuf; used for fried potatoes ("thick cut" or "steak cut ...
, a culinary knife cut
*Batons, in the keyboard of a
carillon
A carillon ( , ) is a pitched percussion instrument that is played with a keyboard and consists of at least 23 cast-bronze bells. The bells are hung in fixed suspension and tuned in chromatic order so that they can be sounded harmoniou ...
, the stick-like keys used to play the bells
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Batons (suit), one of the four suits of playing card in the standard Latin deck
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Suit of wands, Batons in the tarot card
Other uses
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BATON
Baton may refer to:
Stick-like objects
*Baton, a type of club
*Baton (law enforcement)
*Baston (weapon), a type of baton used in Arnis and Filipino Martial Arts
*Baton charge, a coordinated tactic for dispersing crowds of people
*Baton (conductin ...
, a Type 1 block cipher, used by the United States to secure all types of classified information
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Baton Bob, a costumed street performer currently based in Atlanta, Georgia
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Baton Broadcasting, a Canadian broadcaster, now owned by CTVglobemedia
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Baton Broadcasting System, a defunct television system owned by Baton Broadcasting Inc.
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Baton Bunny'', a Bugs Bunny cartoon of the ''Looney Tunes'' series produced in 1958
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BATON Overlay or Balanced Tree Over-lay Network, a distributed tree structure for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems
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Baton Records, a record label
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Baton River, a river in the Tasman District of New Zealand
See also
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Baton Rouge (disambiguation)
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Batton, a surname
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Batten (disambiguation)
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Batong (disambiguation)
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Batoni (disambiguation) Batoni may refer to:
* Batoni (title), a Georgian honorific
* Batoni, Italy, a hamlet
* Pompeo Batoni
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (25 January 1708 – 4 February 1787) was an Italian painter who displayed a solid technical knowledge in his portrait ...
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